Per MTSU beat it's either...
El Paso or Birmingham
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2017 C-UAB Tournament Site is Birmingham
Per MTSU beat it's either...
El Paso or Birmingham
They just put El Paso in there to make it sound like someone else has a chance.
Who votes? AD's, presidents, the commish?
I think ADs recommend and Presidents vote.
The reason #4 seed UAB got to pick their playing time (times?) two years ago is because the members voted the privilege to them.
To me, fairness dictates that the regular season champion should have a protected right when it comes to playing times. Then if they want to throw a bone to the host team, that didn't win the conference regular season title, fine let them be factored in second.
Someone more knowledgeable than me probably has a better understanding on how this has shaken out in the past. It sure seems to me UAB has received extra ordinary advantages.
Last edited by tenacious_dog; 05-24-2016 at 03:29 PM.
Our C-USA president as said she will recomment ODU as the spot.
If they can solve the MEAC conflict with the SCOOPE arena.Originally Posted by maddawg
Louisiana Tech University
Flagship of the University of Louisiana System
Our AD has a great relationship with the MEAC. Put him in charge.
@MrChadBishop:Conference USA basketball tournaments returning to Birmingham for third straight year
So excited for C-UAB
Well crap!
Do we know if anyone else submitted a bid? I don't think Tech did.
Utep
I wonder how TMac voted.
If the only choices were utep & uab, there wasn't much to choose from. utep is a better venue and better run tournament but it's halfway to Siberia.
I hope they at least gave the number one seed/regular season champion the choice on playing times. Not holding my breath on that one. That's not how CUAB seems to operate.
Tech didn't. CUSA didn't like Shreveport-Bossier's secondary facility (Centenary Gold Dome) last time. So Bossier bid on the Sun Belt tournament this time. They only require one facility.
CUSA is its' own worst enemy. The leadership seems to be doing everything they can to kill CUSA basketball. Birmingham is a run down pit hole. The shame is, there are several good cities in CUSA's footprint that are better suited for this. Nashville, New Orleans, the Dallas-Ft Worth area, Houston, San Antonio and Charlotte are all better choices with bigger media markets than Birmingham.
CUSA doesn't seem to understand that this tournament offers the conference a golden opportunity to market itself to the masses. During "tournament week", CUSA should host a local marathon race (including a 10K, 5K , etc....), a CUSA "fans" golf tournament, and other "basketball events" (e.g., 3-point shooting contest, a dunk contest, etc...) that will 1) make alumni and fans want to attend, and 2) market CUSA to the locals.
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